Dana Rohrabacher

Dana Rohrabacher (21 June 1947-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-CA 42) from 1989 to 1993 (succeeding Dan Lungren and preceding George Brown Jr.), from CA 45 from 1993 to 2003 (succeeding Duncan Hunter and preceding Mary Bono), from CA 46 from 2003 to 2013 (interrupting Loretta Sanchez's two terms), and from CA 48 from 2013, succeeding John B. T. Campbell III.

Biography
Dana Rohrabacher was born in Coronado, California in 1947, and he was an anarcho-liberal and libertarian activist during the 1970s, when he worked as a folk singer and a writer for the Orange County Register. From 1981 to 1988, he worked as a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, whose presidential campaigns he had worked on in 1976 and 1980; he played a leading role in the formation of Reagan's foreign policy and economic doctrines. He was elected to the US Congress in 1989 as a Republican Party member, and he voted to repeal Obamacare, opposed illegal immigration, was skeptical about global warming, favored the legalization of marijuana, supported withdrawal from the Afghanistan War, sided with Russia during its 2008 war with the Republic of Georgia, called for retaliation against President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan's role in embassy violence, defended Russia's annexation of Crimea, and supported cooperation with Russia in Syria.